Backup and recovery
Designed backwards from the restore.
A backup that has never been restored is an assumption. We design backup and disaster recovery from agreed recovery objectives, and test them by restoring.
Where it fits
- On-premises and virtualised server estates
- Hybrid estates spanning on-premises infrastructure and cloud services
- Cloud-hosted and SaaS workloads
- Healthcare and other availability-critical settings
- Organisations with regulatory retention requirements
Backup and recovery
Our scope
What we do on these systems.
- 01Agree recovery time and recovery point objectives per system with the organisation, before any platform is chosen
- 02Design the backup architecture (schedules, retention, copy counts and an immutable or offline tier) against those objectives
- 03Specify where backup data lives: on-site, second site or cloud, with restore bandwidth checked against the recovery time
- 04Write the DR runbook: the order systems come back, who does what, and the decision points (not a contact list)
- 05Commission by performing restores (file, application and full system) and recording the measured times
- 06Schedule recurring restore tests so the capability is maintained rather than assumed
Platform
What the system does.
- Recovery point and recovery time objectives defined per system, not one policy for everything
- Multiple backup copies across separate media and locations, including one isolated from the production network
- Immutable or offline copies that a compromised administrator account cannot delete
- Application-consistent backups of databases and virtualised workloads
- Restore options from a single file to a full site, so a full restore is never the only path
- Replication to a second site or cloud for the systems whose recovery time demands it
- Backup job monitoring and failure alerting, so a silent failure is not discovered at restore time
- Restore times measured in tests rather than quoted from a datasheet
Next step
Bring the complete environment into one conversation.
Tell us what you are planning, replacing, integrating or trying to stabilise. We will help define the right next step.